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Record Labels Take Kazaa to Court

Updated Nov. 30, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

Lawyers for Australia's recording industry branded the popular Kazaa file-swapping network "an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen" as they launched a court battle yesterday to shut down its alleged illegal activities. Kazaa's owners say the network's 100 million world-wide users download three billion files each month, said lawyer Tony Bannon, who is representing Australia's six major record labels. Kazaa users can exchange songs, movies and television programs without paying royalties to the copyright owners. The record company lawyers will try to have Kazaa's owners declared...